'Crowne': A Bad Fit for Hollywood Royalty

Tom Hanks may not be America's finest screen actor, but he's got statuettes that say otherwise. When he won his back-to-back Best Actor Oscars in 1994 and 1995 for "Philadelphia" and "Forrest Gump", respectively, he became the first actor to do so since Spencer Tracy (in 1937 and 1938), who was always considered the gold standard of classic Hollywood. Mr. Hanks has been compared repeatedly to James Stewart over the course of his three-decade career. He's a distant relative of Abraham Lincoln's mother; he fought long and hard to get a World War II memorial built on the Mall in Washington, D.C.; if he...